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I am an author and scholar in the field of women's athletics, and this book is among the very best I have come across. Mariah Nelson provides an inspiring introduction, and the chapters cover a wide variety of sports from basketball to track and field to equestrian events. Each chapter is written by a different author, and they all bring unique voices to the mix. Editor Lissa Smith has done a great job of making it all hang together.

"Nike is a Goddess" is highly recommended to anyone interested in the history of women in sports.

--Vince Prygoski, author of "Worst to First, or, a 'Shock'ing tale of Women's Basketball in Motown" (available through Amazon.com)

I would really like to exhale now that someone finally gave props to the female basketball players who have great talent, but are not in the WNBA or Over Seas playing on a "professional level". Nike is a Goddess went "underground"to the best pro-am basketball tourney for woman at West 4th.ST. in NYC. These are the woman who have played for years in college and many other pro-am basketball tournaments. These woman are "street legends" of NYC.
These woman are excellent players, professionals, mothers and SUPERB basketball players. I'm so glad someone noticed, Thanx!

I was so impressed with this book that I plan to include it in a graduate-level college course about women's sports.

There are 13 essays about various sports and also includes and introduction and conclusion. Some of the essays were better than others, usually because of the sport the essay examined. Babe Didrikson is featured in more than one essay, which highlights her significance to women's sports. The essays really draw attention to the many contributions many women, who's names are not commonly known, have brought to their sports. As a knowledgeable sports fan I enjoyed learning new things about female athletics. The essay's covered Track and Field, Baseball and Softball, Tennis, Golf, Canoeing Kayaking, Rowing Sailing, Skiing, Figure Skating, Swimming, Equestrian Sports, Gymnastics, Soccer, Ice Hockey, and Basketball. I totally skipped the Boating, Equestrian, and Ice Hockey essays and skimmed the Skiing essay. These sports don't interest me even in men's sport (except Ice Hockey, but I can't buy the women's version of the sport). I would recommend this book and I'll keep it in case my 6 year old daughter one day wishes to learn more about one or more of these sports.

A MUST for all young women of today -truly inspirational. A comprehensive and significant book.

My sister already has a copy and loves it so much she wouldn't let my mother borrow it. So, I copy as a gift for my mom and she can't put it down. For anyone who is a runner and loves reading about the history of the Oregon running team and the history of Nike, this is the book for you. This book has history and sports. Enjoy!!

I knew that Bowerman coached Pre and had an influence on Nike and the jogging boom of the 70s, but Moore's biography fills in all the gaps from Medford to Mexico City. Bowerman's life reads like a case-closing defense of the Great Man theory of history, at least for track & field. His accomplishments are truly remarkable and well-rendered by Moore.

This is an invaluable read for anyone involved with coaching. The first chapters on Bowerman's ancestors also offer some insights into Oregon life in the small towns in the late 1800's early 1900's. Finally, the book is well written and easy to read. All around a worthwhile experience!

This is one of the first biographies that I could not put down. Bowerman was so much more than a running coach. This is a must read for any runner.

Bowerman was one of the best XC and Track coaches in the Nation. His story is captured in this books and tells remarkable tales of his life that will live in distance runners hearts for years to come. This is a must get book and is much better than any other book even Running with the Buffalos. Dont pass this book up!!!

Through the 1840s, the California Gold Rush was in full force. Through the 1950s, the lesser known defense rush went into full force. "The Winged and Garlanded Nike" is a novel linking the two rushes of financial stages of money flowing out and into California. Taking a hard critical look at the era from both its height of 1955 and its aftermath thirty one years later in 1986, with a thought provoking parody on the era. Deftly written, "The Winged and Garlanded Nike" is highly recommended for community library collections dedicated to literary fiction.

This is a compelling story of human folly, of a small California town madeover by the 49'ers and again, a century later, by the nuclear weapons industry, as the cold waar evolved from one technological advance to another.

It is compelling because we share the little and very big frustrations, hopes and worries of the people we come to know. In my experience they are very real people.

I recommend this book. It is an entertaining novel with well-developed characters. The story showcases the effect of the Cold War on a sleepy California gold rush town when the fictional Maxtar International moves its Missile Systems Division there. The lethal mix of Government money, nuclear bombs and intercontinental missiles poses a moral dilemma for the town, and, indeed, for all of us.

This novel could stand alone as a compelling story of life in a small town during the Fifties, but it does much more. Set in California's gold rush country in the Sierra foothills, the novel describes how the missile industry altered the town and the surrounding region, but often with troubling consequences. The characters and their relationships, for better or worse, are well-drawn. There are some unexpected narrative twists, with unresolved romance and murder over a thirty year period adding to the reader's pleasure.

However, the novel is much more. Its overriding theme deals with how nuclear missile technology affects both the local residents and the entire country. When the story moves to the 1980's, the common wisdom begins to change. What was initially perceived as benign and beneficial research has evolved into a fire-breathing and unstoppable monster. The author brilliantly and convincingly captures this transition and it will move the reader to reevaluate what we accept as a reasonable defense policy.

S.G. Scott's brilliant novel is set in a fictional, mid-50s-California foothills town, where a Cold-War-era defense plant has been located (in accord with the then-prevalent "dispersal" of such industries to protect them from Soviet nuclear-missile attack). The plant brings jobs and economic good times, but everything--especially people's lives--have been profoundly changed when we revisit the town thirty years later.
Principal characters are the aggressive, politically ambitious corpor-ate plant manager and his senior staff; the military chiefs who are the company's customers; the manager's discontented aspiring-author wife; a crusty divorced academic (a modern Renaissance Man), who opposes every-thing the plant stand for; and the young engineers and scientists who work on hellish weapons by day and search for love among the town girls at night.
All the characters spring to life! There isn't a "type" among them. Scott skillfully interweaves the diverse plot lines (usurping of the town's way of life); an unsolved mystery dating to the Gold Rush; the romantic adventures (some comic, others not) of the new, young "invad-ers"; the dangerous flirtation between the "anti-nuke" academic and wife of the powerful defense-plant manager; and the effects of the town's rapid development on the local ecology. Present throughout the novel is the haunting presence of nuclear weaponry and its frightful threat to humankind.
As we see the inner workings of a military-industrial marriage, we question whether that union was conceived largely for economic reasons: to provide hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of jobs along with continual revenue streams to companies whose products soon become obso-lete and must be replaced.
Think Iraq and WMDs. Until a few years ago that acronym was unfamiliar, although our government assured us we were threatened by them. Now we know otherwise. But the same political factions persist in allocating billions for defense, as our schools, health systems, and infrastructures are coming apart at the seams. Present-day "cold warriors" even press for a protective "shield" of anti-nuclear-warhead weapons (at untold cost), which many assert cannot work and which, itself, could trigger nuclear Armageddon.
Besides Scott's expert rendition of a town and its residents turned upside down, for me the novel's spine is his posing of the question (63 years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki): Why haven't we "put the nucler genie back in the bottle?" That's for each reader to answer.

Absolutely brilliant. Having read many UFO investigation books this belongs among them - where does the truth finish and the fiction begin, if in fact it does, There is an awful lot of truth in here. Excellent plot, delivery, pace and some very cleaver cross references to reality and past ufology. A must for all ufologists - the sequel has a lot to match up to.

A superp book, ufos detected, raf jets shot down, american treachary and abuctions. The best alien invasion book of the decade

This book really gets your attention early and holds it throughout. As I'm ex-military, I really liked how thorough he was in incorporating a lot of the actual equipment that would be used in these scenarios into the plot. I felt as though I could actually be there. I am not too familiar with British command structures but Mr. Pope did a great job of educating me on their functions as the book went along. The Glossary of Abbreviations was so helpful throughout. I feel that he did a great job of marrying fiction to fact. You find yourself hoping it is much more fiction than fact as you read it. I found it quite thought provoking, considering UFO's do appear to be a real phenomenon, of what who knows? Let's hope this scenario remains fiction. Great job, Nick Pope!

Yehiel Dinur, Ka-Tzetnik 135633 survived the horrors of the Holocaust only to discover that survival alone would not end his torment. Hunted by distressing symptoms of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) he underwents a supervised LSD treatment program. Unfortunately after many sessions his situation deteriorates and he decides to leave the program. He writes near the end of the book: "I can't stop thinking that maybe I shouldn't have provoked fate by trying to rewrite my life script. Maybe I should never have made that trip to En-Dor, should never have used LSD to conjure up the secret that a Hand, keeping its own counsel, had cared enough to hide from me."

Short, honest and heart-wrenching book highly recommended to all transpersonal psychotherapists, underground psychedelic therapists, Holotropic Breathwork practitioners and everyone else interested in the depths of human psyche.

This book is a great insight into the personality of the author Yehiel Dinur a.k.a Katzetik. The book stands on its own as a powerful recording of the events that took place in the life of the author during the holocaust. As with all of Katzetnik's books the events are heart wrentching. Particulary worth recalling in this book is when he for the first time goes to a beach in Europe during his medical treatment of the 1970s and exposes his arm that was tatooed in Aushwitz with his inmate number 135633. The scene is chilling and unforgetable. The premise of the use of LSD to come to terms with his lifelong nighmares about his experiences of the holocaust is secondary except for the fact that it is through this means that the author comes to terms with his pain caused by the cruel germans and their helpers. Overall, this book is an important read and is even more stunning if you read Katzetnik's other books. Katzetmik is one of the most powerful and important authors on the subject of the holocaust and his books are a must read for everyone lest the world forget what happened.

This book is not for the faint hearted or for the person whio is interested in history. The premise of the book is that the author relives his Aschiwitz experence through LSD treatment by a psychogist. Some things he remembers are likley to have happened to him, and some are a nightmare of things he cannot escape. If you want to read any of this authors books you need to have a strong stomach, It is a very rewarding and powerfull book if you are up for it

I am so glad i bought this book and saved my money. I compared it to the 2nd edition and it is virtually the same.

I teach child psychology with this book, at a college. The book is topically arranged (not chronologically arranged), and, overall, the writing is excellent. Two chapters (Ch 12: The Family) and Ch. 13 (Peers) are not taught in my course; instead, students do chapter tests on those two for extra credit. The Instructor's Test Bank by Jill Saxon is mediocre, but was greatly improved for the Second Edition. The Second Edition is 98% identical to the First Edition, so I continue to teach with the First Edition. The three authors' coordination of topics was moderately successful, but the topic of "social referencing" is freshly described in at least three separate chapters, suggesting that authors did not realize that this term was presented elsewhere in the book, in addition to their own presentation. I continue to buy these books to give to students in the class as prizes for high test performance, or for most-improved test performance. SB

I really like this book because over the internet I was looking for info on Phil Knight and his partner. I came to Amazon.com and found the perfect book that I never knew existed.(WOW) If you like Nike you will enjoy learning the origin of creators and how the shoe industry was rocked by these two shoe pioneers.

Thanks, and please check this book out

Tony Smith

When I was first told that this book was required for my college English class, I thought that because of the title, the cover, and the spiral binding, this book would be another one of those dull textbooks. I definitely thought wrong. Inside this book, you will discover a world of information along with color photographs, real life examples of how writing is important, and the most up-to-date MLA information including proper citation methods, proper essay formats, proper punctuation, and proper syntax. Now that I am out of that first semester of English, I still view this book as valuable reference material due to it's comprehensive information on today's modern writing techniques. If you enjoy both reading and writing, I would strongly encourage you to purchase this book.

I'm currently a 10th grade high school student, and this book was great for me, simply great. Very clear, great diagrams, very helpful sample problems and reviews... it even has a laboratory safety manual, an a listing of the elements both on the table, and in alphabetical order!

The Khmer Rouge held power in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 and aggressively pursued a policy of radical social transformation that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians through mass executions and physical privation. In January 1979, the government was overthrown by former Khmer Rouge officials, with substantial backing from the army of Vietnam. In August of that year the new government of Cambodia set up a special court, the People's Revolutionary Tribunal, to try two of the Khmer Rouge government's most powerful leaders, Pol Pot and Ieng Sary. The charge was genocide as defined in the United Nations Genocide Convention of 1948. At the time, both men were in the Cambodian jungle leading the Khmer Rouge in a struggle to regain power; they were, therefore, tried in absentia.Genocide in Cambodia assembles documents from this historic trial and contains extensive reports from the People's Revolutionary Tribunal. The book opens with essays that discuss the nature of the primary documents, and places the trial in its historical, legal, and political context. The documents are divided into three parts: those relating to the establishment of the tribunal; those used as evidence, including statements of witnesses, investigative reports of mass grave sites, expert opinions on the social and cultural impact of the actions of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary, and accounts from the foreign press; and finally the record of the trial, beginning with the prosecutor's indictment and ending with the concluding speeches by the attorneys for the defense and prosecution.The trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary was the world's first trial based on the United Nations Genocide Convention of 1948 aswell as the first trial of a head of government on a human rights-related charge. This documentary record is significant for the history of Cambodia, and it will be of the highest importance as well to the international legal and human rights communities.